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Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart present a three issue series that was short lived in 2004.

This compilation trade paperback of the adventures of Seaguy and his trusty friend Chubby (the floating, cigar-smoking, talking tuna who hates water), launched the bumblebee boat for one last great adventure on the seas... and on the moon.

Seaguy is lost in a world with no heroes. The world is upside down compared to ours. For example, two of the characters are: a bearded female warrior named She-Beard who's lone objective is to find a man, and Death who is dressed as a gondolier and plays chess with our hero (only to always lose because Death is colorblind). Seaguy longs for adventure so that he might spark She-Beard's interest.

Then strange things start to happen. Seaguy and Chubby are eating a new brand of food called “xoo.” When Seaguy chews away on his food, a mysterious creature plops out of his mouth. The creature is frightened and wants to find “xoo,” and the quest to find out where this xoo is from takes Seaguy on his most daring adventure of all.

When the military (resembling the most famous character from their world “Mickey Eye”) comes after them, they run for their lives. When they finally reach an industrial oil platform belonging to xoo industries, Seaguy discovers that xoo is a man-made goop that has genetic mind altering drugs. The discovery turns deadly as the creature xoo turns into a monster, and devours everything in sight.

Seaguy and Chubby escape to the mythical island of Atlantis. While searching for clues to why meteors are falling from the sky, Chubby floats too close to a wasp hive and is violently stung. Unfortunate events now carry our hero into delirious state as Chubby loses his battle to live.

The story shifts again as Seaguy is kidnapped by Egyptian jackals taken to the moon. Seaguy is awakened by a mummy (who is a pharaoh pilot) who divulges that the moon is an Egyptian tomb. And then Seaguy fights a huge beetle, and then... I was lost.

I am sorry but, after reading this trade paperback I can see why it was just a three issue series. I think Grant Morrison is one of the classic writers of our time. Don’t get me wrong; it was original, whimsical and pure comic book fun. The very end of the story lost me because it just ended with no explanation as to why Seaguy was being brainwashed, and he just started a new life with a new sidekick (a parrot named Lucky el Loro) and it just left me dangling.

The series however did bring back visions of Plastic Man and his sidekick. The artwork by Cameron Stewart was great; the different locations each had a really unique feel for the reader to discover.

This series could have been a follow up to the Animal Man series of old from the late 60's and 70’s. It had the same humor and feel, but the premise was lost at sea. If you are a reader of the obscure, it will be all hands on deck. But deep down inside I have a weird feeling that this could and may one day be made into a movie.

I give this trade paperback a 3.0. The artwork was very definitive, the jokes and the humor were ship-shape, but somewhere towards the end it fell off the plank.